How To Add A Layer In Arcgis Online

'Why add spreadsheet data to ArcGIS Online?' Maybe not a typical question from a 9-year-sometime. But my nephew, Gio, wanted to know. He recently learned about spreadsheets in school. For homework, he was creating a spreadsheet of trees in his neighborhood. I told him I used spreadsheets to brand maps.

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'Maps are more interesting than spreadsheets. They accept pictures instead of rows and columns of numbers and words.' Exactly.

Maps help you discover patterns and trends in your data because they brandish the data visually. For case, with Gio's tree data, we could create 3D visualizations of the trees based on their height, species, or condition. The map could help urban planners meet the tree atmospheric condition and brand informed decisions nigh how to manage the trees.

How do y'all get the data into a map? Yous add it to ArcGIS Online and publish it as a hosted characteristic layer. Hosted feature layers let you visualize, analyze, and share the data through maps. You can also update the features, edit related aspect information, and collect additional features. You can add nearly whatever spreadsheet to ArcGIS Online if it has location information such addresses or coordinates.

In iv steps, I showed Gio how to add a spreadsheet to ArcGIS Online. Here's how.

Stride 1: Sign in to ArcGIS Online with your ArcGIS account.

Your account needs privileges to publish hosted feature layers. If yous don't have these privileges, contact your ArcGIS Online administrator or get a free ArcGIS Online trial.

Pace ii: On the Content folio, click New item.

Step three: Drag your spreadsheet file into the New item drop zone.

Leave the default option to add together your spreadsheet file and create a hosted feature layer.

Add file and create a hosted feature layer

Step four: Review and change if necessary the default options for fields, location settings, and item details. Click Salve to add your spreadsheet and publish it as a hosted characteristic layer.

The spreadsheet file and feature layer appear in your content page.

In 4 quick steps, Gio and I added a spreadsheet information to ArcGIS Online.

As a best do for sharing, nosotros added boosted data to our item page and enabled delete protection so nosotros didn't accidently remove the items from our content.

What's next?

We could do whatsoever of the following with our feature layer:

Add the layer to a map
Perform analytics to answer questions like 'where should we establish more trees?'
Collect more than tree data right from our mobile devices
Symbolize the trees in 3D
Share the map equally a web app

Gio thought this seemed OK. But maybe not quite as fun as climbing a tree. Off-white enough.

More data about adding information to ArcGIS Online

Add together items
Publish hosted characteristic layers
Best practice for sharing
Best practices for using layers in maps
Manage information by creating hosted feature layer views

This article was originally published on September 25, 2018 and has been updated.

About the author

I'm a senior primary product engineer for ArcGIS writing and a member of the ArcGIS Online team. In add-on to helping users brand maps, I'm passionate about trail running, Nordic skiing, ski mountaineering, climbing, and English language Pointers.

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